Registration closes at 11:59 PM on Sunday, March 31!
Day 1: Friday April 5th, 2024
9:30-10:00 a.m.
a. Welcome, Land Acknowledgement, and Introductory Remarks by Dean of Allard Law, Professor Ngai Pindell
b. Remarks by Director of the Center for Business Law, Professor Camden Hutchison
c. Remarks by Laura West, Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada, Chair of STEP Vancouver and member of the STEP Canada National Board of Directors.
10:00-10:30 a.m.
Session 1
a. Registration of Trust Instruments and Trust Information: Célia Berger-Tarare, Senior Lecturer in Law at the Université de Franche-Comté, France, and Director of the Diploma in English and American Law
10:30-11:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 p.m.
Session 2
a. Settlors’ Reserved Powers: Katy Barnett, Professor, Melbourne Law School, Australia & Mark Bennett, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
b. Trustees’ Powers: Lee-ford Tritt, Professor of Law and David H Levin Chair in Family Law, Law School, University of Florida, USA
c. Trustees’ Rights: Tang Hang Wu, Professor of Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, Singapore
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Session 3
a. Trustees’ Duties: Elizabeth Carter, Professor of Law and holder of the Judge Anthony J. Graphia and Jo Ann Graphia Endowed Professorship and Athanassios N. Yiannopoulos Endowed Professorship, Louisiana State University, USA
b. Remedies for Mistaken Trustee Decisions: Rebecca Lee, Associate Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
3:00-3:30 p.m.
Break (No Coffee)
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Session 4
a. Trustees’ Personal Liability for Restoration and Reparation: David Bakibinga, Professor of Commercial Law, School of Law, Makerere University, Uganda
b. Trustees’ Liability for Illegitimate Gains (Personal and Proprietary remedies): Simone Degeling, Professor of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia
c. Trustee Liability for Trust Debts and Trust Creditors’ Direct Access to Trust Assets: Lionel Smith, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge, U.K., & Alexandra Popovici, Professor, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
5:00-5:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
5:30-7:00 p.m.
Session 5
a. Co-trustees: Minimum Number, Cross-Liability, Contribution: Francois du Toit, Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa
b. Trustee Exemption Clauses: Daniel Clarry, Barrister, Gerard Brennan Chambers, Brisbane, Australia
c. Beneficiaries’ Enforcement Rights and Non-Beneficiary Enforcers: Kelvin Low, Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore
7:30-9:30 p.m.
Reception dinner (at the faculty lounge)
Day 2: Saturday April 6th, 2024
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Session 6
a. Beneficiaries’ Rights to Information (including applicable aspects of Data Protection law): Ziva Robertson, Partner, Charles Russell Speechlys, London, England
b. Rights of Objects of Powers: Aruna Nair, Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford, England
c. Premature Termination of the Trust by Beneficiaries: Derwent Coshott, Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney, Australia
10:30-11:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 p.m.
Session 7
a. Doctrinal Techniques for Disregarding Trusts: Jessica Palmer, Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Otago, New Zealand
b. Access to the Trust Fund by Beneficiaries’ Creditors: Carla Spivack, David Josiah Brewer Distinguished Professor of Law, Albany Law School, U.S.A.
c. Trusts in a Family Law Context: Divorce & Succession: Naomi Cahn, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School, USA & Deborah Gordon, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Thomas R Kline School of Law, Drexel University, USA
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Session 8
a. Choice of Law for Trusts: Ardavan Arzandeh, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore
b. Choice of Law in Trust Arbitration: Professor S.I. Strong, K.H. Gyr Professor of Private International Law, Emory University, U.S.A.
c. Offshore “Firewalls”: Adam Hofri-Winogradow, Associate Professor, Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada, & Sara Maria Adami-Johnson, VP HNW Planning Services, International Estate, Art and Digital Legacy Planning, Royal Bank of Canada, Canada
3:00-3:30 p.m.
Break (No Coffee)
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Session 9
a. Personal and Proprietary Liability of External Parties to the Trust: Pauline Ridge, Professor, Australian National University, Australia
b. Commercial Trusts: Nuncio D'Angelo, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright, Sydney, Australia
c. Pension Trusts: Scott Donald, Associate Professor, School of Private and Commercial Law, University of New South Wales, Australia
5:00-5:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
5:30-7:00 p.m.
a. Charitable Trusts: Jonathan Garton, Professor, School of Law, University of Warwick, U.K.
Session 10
b. Trusts in International Finance: Matteo Solinas, Associate Professor in Commercial Law, Faculty of Law, Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
c. Trust-based Collective Investment Schemes: Yip Man, Professor of Law, V3 Group Professor in Family Entrepreneurship, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Day 3: Sunday April 7th, 2024
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Session 11
a. Tax Treatment of Trusts: Mark Brabazon SC, Barrister, Seventh Floor Chambers, Melbourne, & Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School, Australia
b. Resulting and Constructive Trusts: Ying Khai Liew, Professor, Melbourne Law School, Australia
c. History: the Rise of Uses and Trusts in the Pre-Industrial Period: Joshua Getzler, Professor of Law and Legal History, University of Oxford, England
10:30-11:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 p.m.
Session 12
a. History: Trust Law and Colonialism: Masa Tamaruya, Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo, Japan
b. History: The Reception of the Trust in Civil Law Jurisdictions: Her Honor Professor Katerina Ronovska, Vice President, Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic and Department of Civil Law, Masaryk University, Brno
c. History: Offshore Trust Regimes: Andrew P. Morriss, Professor, Bush School of Government and Public Service and the School of Law, Texas A&M University, USA
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Session 13
a. Law and Inequality: Allison Tait, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Development, School of Law, University of Richmond, USA
b. Sociology: Brooke Harrington, Professor of Sociology, Sociology Department, Dartmouth College, USA
c. Philosophy: Matthew Harding, Professor and Dean, Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne, Australia
3:00-3:30 p.m.
Break (No Coffee)
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Session 14
b. Law & Economics: Daniel Kelly, Professor of Law, the Law School, University of Notre Dame, USA
c. Trusts and Indigenous peoples: Richard Boast, Professor, Faculty of Law, Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand